Carbon (version 1) - Periodic Table of Videos

[terminator6267]

Carbon....the All-Purpose Compound...

[MrBrebuci]

nu-i carbon al nostru !!!

[P0K3M4573R22]

Isn't diamond the purest form of carbon?

[death4hiro]

I thought buckyballs were actually an accidental discovery in the making of nano tubes.

[KarbineKyle]

NICE! Carbon comes in many allotropic forms, like graphite, diamond, buckminsterfullerene (C60), other polyhedron fullerenes, like C20, C26, C70, C72, C76, C84, C100, or even C540. There are carbon nanotubes, and even the rare, but natural londaleite. Basically, londaleite is crystalline carbon but with a hexagonal lattice, unlike diamond, which has a cubic crystalline lattice. Londaleite is formed in meteorite impacts where carbon is present. It's Mohs hardness is 7-8, yet diamond is still 10.

[rockysolace123]

hopefully, you all know that when the professor says "football" he is actually talking about a round ball. Thats what they say. 

[rockysolace123]

hopefully, you all know that when the professor says "football" he is actually talking about a round ball.

[megajonathan96]

what does it look like at 2:44

[Aldurnamiyanrandvora]

just because you have wicked hair, does not make you einstein

[MidnightRedemption]

human inhale oxygen right? but if human exhale, there is still oxygen in it... connected on a carbon that is...

my question is, why?

[7h0M42B4]

@MidnightRedemption CO2 is a byproduct of metabolic reactions. O2 is required for these reactions but is not used up. and comes out as CO2 because of the sugars used :)

[MidnightRedemption]

@7h0M42B4 your telling me O2 is not needed for the body. It's only role is to remove C from the body?

[7h0M42B4]

@MidnightRedemption O2 is needed by the body's cells for the metabolic process (which uses an oxidative process for turning sugar into energy). for example, when you are running for a long period of time, you start breathings heavy right? and your legs start to burn right?

because you have exhausted your supply of oxygen your cells turn to a much less useful pathway of getting energy from sugar. without using O2 a byproduct called lactic acid is produced witch burns.

O2 is very much needed

[MidnightRedemption]

@7h0M42B4 oh... that's why muscle contraction have a connection in oxygen. thanks a lot!!

[999Jigsaw]

The carbon and English are demotivating as homework ._.

[xXAlexRexXx]

the Carbon is my life, i sleep with carbon, and with carbon I light a fire for the horse meat.

I love 2D I.T.I.S Marconi - Catania.

I love his fucking hair . LoL.

[xXAlexRexXx]

the Carbon is my life, i sleep with carbon, and with carbon I light a fire for the horse meat.

I love 2D I.T.I.S Marconi - Catania.

[frostywinter11]

The reason Why i call carbon CO because they put it in foods. (Carb) 2 syllables Carb-on

[garbagee123]

2:45 haha lol

[thomaswil8]

i fuckin love his hair

[lk0056]

9 people never finished school xD

[1986abdulmeghji]

I wont give my loved one a diamond, coz its unreactive..I'll give her a lump of Potassium coz i want our love to be explosive..lol..

[wesnr]

@frostywinter11 No, Carbon's chemical symbol is C. The symbols don't go by syllables, but by mostly Latin names. (there are many that don't, but oh well)

For example, Potassium is K on the periodic table. What you described is Carbon Monoxide. (Combination of one Carbon and one Oxygen atom)

[rifleman1002]

@wesnr Also Sodium is Na.

[wesnr]

@rifleman1002 Yup. :)

[reflectorr88]

@frostywinter11 Cobalt's chemical symbol is Co. Carbon is C.

[alex49carson]

@reflectorr88 he probably knows that

[GRAHAMAUS]

@frostywinter11 Love how you have the utter conviction of being right without letting any facts get in your way at all.

[PandaMagicFTW]

@frostywinter11 LOOOOOLOLLOOOOOLOOOLLLLLLLLL 

[jaedcapo]

C is my facourite element, next goes K

[gaswerti]

@jaedcapo my favourite is Li but i don't like that it's being used as a lubricant...

[derickhaywood]

technically we aren't actually carbon based life forms while the majority of our molecules are carbon the earth is an oxygen based environment, the result of a carbon based world would be tar seas and land mases of graphite and ash i read it in a science magaszine was really interesting

[yamba01]

Apparently carbon's so great, he won't admit he uses it for shampoo :p

[CrooksAlan]

Ref Shenstone's comment below, about giving his loved one a lump of carbon ..., .Lifegem produce synthetic diamonds from the cremated remains of loved ones or pets:

I always remember describing this to a Royal Society of Chemistry colleague (as we walked around a cemetery). He quipped, 'So not only did his wife twist him around her little finger during his life, nbut she was able to after his death as well!' lol

[CrooksAlan]

Carbon 12 - 6 protons, 6 electrons, 6 neutrons - The Number of the Beast. Awesome!

[rovusss]

It's VERY beautiful, LOL

[KanonXD]

You're doomed carbon people!

[xToXiCxK]

Dude.. that one guy with the freaky hair is so cute.

[KilgothMirna]

Never sneeze when facing pulverized charcoal. Seriously, it's a mess.

[uut0]

nano soccer :D

[zack2237]

.....

[1RadicalOne]

Diamonds are for boring people.

My wife and I bought each other amethyst crystals. Not boring transparency, but the color of life, of health. :)

[kevinmost93]

@1RadicalOne My point exactly, I've always said that diamonds look so boring.

[1RadicalOne]

You should see one of the two PMs I got from that comment. Shall we say it was unrepeatable. ;)

[Nguli34689]

Carbon is also called: "The Soul of Fire".

[barbiesaini]

gr8 video now dat probably meanz... i breathe carbon i drink carbon i eat carbon n infact i m CARBON !!!!

[gogita1]

BLE,BLE

[Pendulumdude34]

cool..... great video that i can look to for my science project...

you know... if anyone really cares about my science grade

[amwest0311]

@Pendulumdude34 I care about your science grade. The world is filling up with idiots who care more about Jersy shores than they do about about space, or how thier cool gadgets work.

[Pendulumdude34]

@amwest0311

thanks, and i agree.

society's changing us from the smartest living organism on earth to couch potatoes.

they don't say nothing good about learning or knowledge

[surajmehta1]

man,people put everythin on utube

[jabdi]

Is carbon God?

[wattapassa]

239 : its a very light powder... ver very dark powder.

[MondSemmel]

light as in weight/softness, then dark as in colour

[jbohbot1]

how is that funny?

[douro20]

A very exotic form of carbon is graphene, which exists as sheets only one atom thick. It has been found to have some interesting quantum properties.

[shenstone]

..does that mean I can give my loved one a lump of carbon instead of a diamond?.....boy, that would sure save me a few bucks...

[entoris476]

@shenstone

even better, give her a chunk of coal on a ring :)

[captwasabi]

@shenstone Just tell her that diamonds are not forever. They burn in a fire. Most other gemstones will not. Cubic Zirconia won't.

[DevilMaster]

@shenstone If you were Superman, yes, you could. There was a scene in a Superman movie where Superman reaches a coal mine, grabs a lump of coal, squeezes it between his hands an makes a diamond out of it. Then we see Clark giving Lois a ring with that very diamond.

[Raincloud81]

Essentially, if there were no carbon, there would be no life on Earth. So, therefore, a 'carbon footprint' is a baseless term with no scientific or rational importance. People need to not buy into the business of Gore and the environmental propaganda. Plants require CO2 to grow and produce their byproduct called OXYGEN, which we breathe and require for life. I cannot believe how gullible and uninformed people are to just disregard the science behind the natural world.

[2882890]

"I cannot believe how gullible and uninformed people are to just disregard the science behind the natural world. "

You're one of them.

[DeltaPhi79]

So disregarding the science is something you should do. You should be uneducated about it? We're not accellerating global warming any more than accellerating oxygen production.

[ltnemo2000]

Yes plants need it, and they do use a lot of it. Have you considered that, a long long time ago, when life was beginning, there was very little O2 in the atmosphere it was all CO2. That CO2 was put in the ground as coal and oil. We put that buried carbon back into the air and are feeling the differences caused by putting the carbon back and reverting the earth to it's earlier stages when it was MUCH HOTTER! (I wonder why...) I bet you're some fat American 13 year-old nerd wannabe. (L0000237!).

[WilJakeTV]

hey im a 13 yr old american, but i am not fat and im not a nerd wannabe, i actually am really smart

[Pendulumdude34]

sound cocky much???

[hyunchoi98]

Yes but we are producing more co2 than the plants can breathe.

[jbohbot1]

that is wrong.

[Sturrmm]

@hyunchoi98 you dont produce co2, you cant create more matter than what already exists.

[Sturrmm]

@hyunchoi98 let me specify, you cannot create more carbon or oxygen atoms than already exist, and please don't give us that, "but the plants cant use enough of it, if you have food on your plate and you are full and someone puts a little more on your plate would you eat it?

[clayton15601]

I think what he meant to say is the rate at which CO2 is being produced (or synthesized during respiration) far exceeds the ability of plants to convert that into O2. If we also take into consideration the fact that based on what I've been told (not checking specific statistics) we are depleting forests and such if we increase the rate of CO2 production and decrease the rate of O2 production(which directly utilizes CO2) that puts us in a predicament because that balance is essential.

[kiwishuffler]

good old 'bucky balls' haha

[Spiritrunner6]

What's really fun (But a little expensive) is to drop a diamond into liquid Oxygen and watch it dissolve. ...heh and they say diamonds are forever.

[TheAksumite]

Carbon is also melanin so to all my melaninated people remember black/brown is the dust of God!

[okuma0kuma]

pure carbon is transparent has no colour

[wrnchhead76]

Wrong. The base carbon atom forms graphite.

[okuma0kuma]

well yes that would be the graphite but i was thinking of diamond at the time :P

[kbdozz]

All the way back to Alexander Parkes and his first form of plastic, carbon has been with vehicle manufacturer, to the nth degree; well at least in the last 30 years-before that, cars were properly made: metal, wood, and leather. So yes, carbon gets you to and from work each day.

;-)

[dieper2dieper]

carbons as fuel to get home ?

not since the steam engine on coal baby.

but true, he's talking about hydro-carbons.

it has carbon in it.

however, i allways learned the power comes from breaking the tries between the H and the C's, not realy from breaking only C's apart.

so. in fact i think my my car isn't running on carbon. but then, chemistry wasn't my major. :D (combustion engines were)

yes yes, i know, combustion engines were allreay outdated in the last milenium,

go tell the oil barrons.

[kbdozz]

The fuel powering your internal combustion engine is, by far, carbon (between 4:1 to 12:1 carbon:hydrogen)-in the form of petrol. Highly refined carbon in fact-so that it can be used as a fuel. Then, there's the carbon that wraps the rims of your wheels: pretty much all carbon. Then theres the plastics that create a modern vehicle.

[dieper2dieper]

maybe i wasn't realy clear.

i'm responding to 0:33 there he says most of us use carbon as a fuel to get home.

it could be true if he's talking about electric trains/metro powered by coalpowerstations.

but i think pertol/gas isn't realy carbon.

it has carbon in it that's for shure,

but what realy is powering the car ?

it's it burning carbon ?

i think it realy needs the hydrogen as well.

so to say, "i use carbon as a fual to get home.."

makes me think of steam trains that run on coal.

[italianopalo]

gasoline is a mixture of alkanes and alkenes, which are carbon chains with hydrogens attached to it.

[Elvarks]

I'm gonna burn some wood and crush the charcoal

[lookatcha]

Chemistry is like a huge jiksaw puzzle. The more u study it the more the pieces seem to come together, and the more interesting and fascinating it becomes.

[hash1212]

Is it more thermodynamically favorable for diamond to convert to graphite? Therefore over a long period of time diamond is actually degrading?

[FelixCulpa81]

I am officially a geek, i realised this suddenly when i was eying up that rather nice periodic table in the video...

It's way better than mine - gotta track one of those versions down!!

:-D

[JebusGeist]

"I am officially a geek, i realised this suddenly when i was eying up that rather nice periodic table in the video..."

Check out The Periodic Coffee Table from Element Collections, i bet you'll get a kick out of their other products too. They sell collections of samples of up to 92 elements (80 pure, 3 compounds and 9 trace radioactive samples), and they've made one that is embedded in one solid clear acrylic block and mounted as the top of a coffee table.

$8500 worth of geek sheik!

[sn1pe352]

the human body is made of with cells consisting of 65-90% water by weight , making the body's mass 65% Oxygen and 10% Hydrogen , 99 percent of the humans body mass is made up of just SIX elements, oxygen,carbon,hydrogen,nitroge n,calcium,phosphorus

would you guys make a periodic table of elements of the human body and explain all of the atomistic and molecular functions in the human body to the best of your abilities? Namaste my friends

[denelson83]

Light and dark at the same time! ;)

[TheSprinklerSystem]

and anamonpoeia's point, protons neutrons and electrons, are not the only sub-atomic particles, there a many others, divided into different groups, Hadrons and Leptons! Hadrons are divided then into two other groups, Baryons and Mesons, protons, neutrons and their anti-particles are in the baryon, and things such as pi-meson or pions and k-mesons or kaons, arein the group mesons! electrons are considered fundamental particles, and are in the Lepton group, among thins such as muons, and others!

[Anamonopeia]

Sorry, Ferbie13 but you're wrong about the kinds of atoms. Atoms are always built upon the same basic structure.

Protons, neutrons and electrons are SUBATOMIC particles. An atom consists of a nucleus in which protons and neutrons can be found, and a surrounding electron cloud, or 'atomic orbital'. What varies is the proportion in which these subatomic particles can be found within the atom.

[Pikhand]

Prof. Poliakoff

[humblerinbin]

what is the name of that scientist (old guy with afro hair)

[satandog]

Phil Spector.

[saintaureus]

I eat carbon for breakfast.

[andy187inc]

@saintaureus hah i got it :D

[CrazyMonkey124]

@saintaureus I love this comment.

[Harisdoubled]

@saintaureus are you a stone monster? XD

[douro20]

@saintaureus

We all do...

[simkinggold101]

what does atomic number mean? is it how many atoms the mollicule has?

[Kargoneth]

An atom's atomic number is the total protons within the atom's nucleus.

[Grymyrk]

I'll also point out that these are elements, and elements are single atoms. Whereas a molecule is made of two or more atoms. (eg) H - Hydrogen and O - Oxygen are elements, it describes a single type of atom. If you put 2 H and 1 O together to make H20 then you have a water molecule also known as Dihydrogen monoxide.

[tomandjj]

no most elements come as molecules anyway like you never see O on its own it's always in the form of O2 or O3. even the metals are considered molecular because they are metallically bonded together. Only using nanotechnology can you isolate a single atom of a metal.

[Grymyrk]

That's true but this is the periodic table, it doesn't describe O2 or O3, only O. Elements at their purist form, a single atom. The original point was that you don't find molecules on the periodic table, what would be the point? It would be like saying the recipe for cake is cake. It's what's in the cake is what we are interested in.

[DHoffman2392]

is he talking about the buckyball in the middle of it?

[dracarys666]

he is indeed... Buckminsterfullerene named after Richard Fuller (i think) and is an allotrope of fullerene

[danbison]

Lol... he says every element is beautiful!

[strek0655]

Because most elements are!

[xpo35]

Fantastic!

[Qussow]

good videos

good information

and amazing hair... just truly amazing

[jemasiva]

I have learned more about carbon in this video than in any other lecture, lesson or teaching so far. Good job sir. You're videos are so educational and interesting at the same time. Cootos to Mr. Martyn.

[manzilla86]

I don't know which branch of Chemistry this professor specializes in, but I am assuming it isn't organic chemistry, otherwise they would probably have devoted more time to this element. Many chemists would probably argue that Carbon is the most well known element in the Chemistry world.

[agungk]

Or we could also say: carbon is the foundation of life.

[EmpKazbar]

When he says "football shaped", does that mean spherical, or like the American football?

[hedleypanama]

he means soccer

[EmbersOfEden]

Like said before, Futbol, or soccer. If we're talking about "football" the Brits play Rugby.

[EmpKazbar]

Yes, I get it. I didn't know if they'd localize or not. Its what I suspected from the beginning, anyway.

[rochelimit55555]

where's the diamond ?

[BigNWide]

For such an important element, the stories, visuals, and discussion for the carbon video are not up the par set by some of the better periodicvideos. I hope this video is one that will be redone and improved soon.

[agungk]

Agreed...

They should show how carbon had magically given rise to life. How it manage with the same simplicity of links with other elements such as oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen, generate millions of compounds with different properties, even though the difference between two molecules only on single relocation of such links.

[AudioToys]

well, you can store hidrogen in those pipes, like water in a sponge...

CIAO =D

[CharlieBBoy12345]

interesting - what's the point of the pea pod experiment?

[AlmightScoop]

Good question. Nanotubes have been dubbed the worlds smallest testube. The confined space can give unexpected chemistry. Nanotubes are also being considered as potential nanowires and its worth investigating whether they peform better with stuff inside them. They could also be used in building nanomachines/nanorobots. Ultimately, this is materials science and nobody knows what surprises these unusual materials will have and what they will be useful for.

[CharlieBBoy12345]

thanks v much (and you, audiotoys)

[Festerius2008]

Yay for carbon!